Yes. The little kiwi-to-egg slider needs to be more prominent than at the bottom of the page, and maybe include a small blurb saying something like "want the other kiwis to hatch? donate to help them!" or something - you need to unironically start channeling PPP with how you advertise the BillPay. It also wouldn't hurt to try coming up with and Claude'ing more paid features as incentives. The sponsor banners were and still are a good motivator, but it evidently isn't enough to get 600.
I set up BillPay on 2/16; my credit union cut a check and sent it out on 2/23, which is what they mean by "paid." Given the time lag between snailmailing it across the country, and somebody picking it up from the PO box, recording it, and depositing it—I've decided to wait until March 10 before going full turbokaren and demanging to know why I'm not flying AnCap colors yet.
Took 45 days from my first cheque to getting the gold banner. I was in the first few groups and the time has gone down since then, but 30 days is pretty sane given the lag in each step of the process (from setting it up to the cheque getting sent, from getting sent to getting received, from received to cashed, and then from cashed to Null getting confirmation). But once you're through that first cheque lag, it basically stays up to date.
Right now the cost of living has been the worse it's been in my entire life here. Wages really haven't increased, prices for things that matter haven't really gone down even if technically infaltion has. I know this has been the hardest time I've had financially ever. Even a couple years ago it wasn't this bad. At least where I am.
I think leaning on KF Gold being a proof-of-concept for a deplatform-resistant funding source that others can implement and doing a little media tour could drum up some extra donations from edgy and politisperg creators that may not otherwise be interested in the farms. It may even be helpful to try to connect with cash/check advocates that aren't in quite as grimy sectors, though admittedly the odds of success may be stacked against you.
PPP could give some useful tips on making a sales pitch for kiwi gold, and it's worth talking to him about it if you haven't already.
1. you should add a CTA button under the featured post box that tells people they can feature posts too if they buy Kiwi Gold
Thank you; this is good to know. I had no idea how long it was going to take, but now I can just forget about it until late March, instead of using up my one turbokaren token for the year.
That's actually not that horrible of an idea. When the site is under the 600/600 goal, making a non-gold user view a popup after a certain amount of posts in a 24 hour period might help.
Some unsolicited advice and a little knowledge from the autism microniche and furry convention scene: No financially serious convention parent company does their own fund drive. They hire a company to run those, like the charity auctions. None of them even run their own convention, they hire contractors. Why? Those owners know how to assemble really fun and crowd drawing autistic panels over Star Trek/Star Wars/My Little Pony/Crochet/Coin/Gin etc. etc. but are the absolute worst at running money gathering operations or personel for various reasons. Many are going broke and never even mention it until its too late and go tits up even though the attendees would have happily donated.
Most people on this forum do not listen to the podcast.
Ah, shit... I got tunnel vision from my own experience where your podcast came first before I used the site.
Redirect every link on the site to your podcast when you are live
Considering the success of the last fundraiser for litigation, would it be possible to do that again? It doesn't help the monthly situation but a lot of people rallied to help when you did that. You could even add an aside about supporting you and the site with kiwi gold. It would at least be one less thing to worry about as you upped monthly support.
